On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:14:07PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Because if you open KWord, you can't take it as anything else but a > clone of MS-Word. It looks the same, it feels the same, and it has a > very related name. Every little item on the window's outline just happen > to be exactly where MS-Word put it. This can't be mistaken.
So... don't open KWord! I don't use any Linux app which imitates the (broken, IMHO) MS GUI interfaces. Neither KWord, nor evolution, nor openoffice, nor name-your-favorite-MS-application-Linux-clone. > First and foremost, the fact that open source programmers see MS > applications as a model to imitate. This applies for many GUI > applications that we see lately: They smell MS without being MS. (GNOME > & KDE included) Not every open source programmer feels that way, and you have the obvious choice of not using the code of those that do. Remember Linux is spelled "freedom". -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org
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